From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mp4zW-0004nM-I4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:49:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8472E07DD; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FC0E07DD for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from afta-gentoo.localnet (ip-85-198-235-97.broker.com.pl [85.198.235.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A88F67A46 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:49:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis To: Gentoo Development Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:51:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-tuxonice-r5-AFTA; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200909191848.33225.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20090919182249.GA22241@eric.schwarzvogel.de> In-Reply-To: <20090919182249.GA22241@eric.schwarzvogel.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2167461.hWUyiNDI7E"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909192051.24168.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 883b0bbc-7e37-42ef-a255-01ec82fd9f68 X-Archives-Hash: ca43c7d9be9e04b1186b993dd6bf7cae --nextPart2167461.hWUyiNDI7E Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2009-09-19 20:22:49 Tobias Klausmann napisa=C5=82(a): > Hi!=20 >=20 > Aside from the remarks made by others (and speaking as someone > who maintains Python software), there is one reason for me to not > switch Python 3 to stable yet: lack of compatibility. Software > that runs with 3.x will not run with any 2.x version as of today It's possible (and not too hard) to write code which works with Python 3 and 2.6. It might be also possible to support older versions, but it would require many ugly exec() calls etc. =2D-=20 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis --nextPart2167461.hWUyiNDI7E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkq1KCwACgkQIEGVSeBq/j4bdwCbBVA8B0V11YjFxgBaA36lvx0r 3acAn0kNZKoy08Acx2fZ+T0N+E9vJej6 =HDGy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2167461.hWUyiNDI7E--